Comparison

Blinds Up vs Poker Timer Pocket

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Blinds Up

Manage all aspects of your poker tournaments, from structure and player management to prize pool calculation and sound effects. Track player statistics and championship rankings. Customize your game screen and sync data across devices.

Highlights
  • Rebuy and addon management
  • Structure generation and customization
  • Player and table management
  • Automatic prize pool calculation
  • Integrated sound effects and text-to-speech
  • Customizable game screen
  • Championship and ranking management
Features
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With Blinds Up, you can manage all aspects of your poker tournaments: - Lot of features like rebuys and addons management, bounties… - Complete management of the structure, you can add round by round or generate instantly a structure through our structure generator. You can of course include breaks, chip races, etc. - Management of players and tables, with the random placement of players, tables balancing, the ability to print a list of the tables, to choose the order of tables closing, and more. - Prize pool can be calculated automatically by our system, or it can be set manually, with prizes based on percentages of the total Prizepool or fixed amounts. You can also manage non-monetary prizes. - Management of chips with the calculation of quantities needed for your tourney, and you can display chips on the game screen for players, etc. - Sound management with integrated sound effects to report events (player busted out, player moving, level ending, new round starting, etc). The announcements of tournament events (blind increases, breaks, etc.) are handled by our powerful text-to-speech system. You can even set yourself the text that the voice will say! - Full customization of your game screen, you can drag elements, change their size, color, font ... everything is customizable, and you can define different game screens depending on the moment go the game (round, break, bust, etc). And for those who want to save time, you can download 20 predefined skins. - The game screen can be displayed on the iPad, but it can also be exported to an external monitor (requires lightning/hdmi adapter or Apple TV). You can manage aspects of your tournament without clutter the display of the game screen to your players! Blinds Up but goes further that the management of a tournament ... - You can attach a tournament to a championship, and thus manage a ranking based on the results of several cumulative tournaments! With calculating points, itm, wins, etc. Rankings can also be exported to Excel directly from the application. - You can view detailed statistics about the players who are the sharks, who are the fish ... which players are most often ITM ... You will know everything through Blinds Up. - You can manage your chipsets, to change quantities and use one or the other of your sets according to the tournaments you are organizing. - All your data is synced live through your Blinds Up account, so you can retrieve all your data on all your iOS devices (requires iCloud). Blinds Up Premium: Please note that the application has limitations, thanks to the premium subscription, you can unlock additional features! The preset structures and predefined skins are part of the premium subscription, it cannot be downloaded separately. Current price for the Blinds Up Premium subscription varies based on the length of your auto-renewing subscriptions and may vary from country to country. For 1-month renewals, price is $9.99 USD per month per pay period, for 1-year renewals, price is $99.99 USD per year per pay period. Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase, and your account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period. Subscription automatically renews unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period. Any unused portion of a free trial period, if offered, will be forfeited when the user purchases a subscription to that publication, where applicable. Terms of Use: https://blindsup.app/terms Privacy policy: https://blindsup.app/privacy We hope you take as much pleasure to use Blinds Up that we took to develop it! If you have questions, ask it on: X: https://x.com/BlindsUpPoker Facebook: http://facebook.com/BlindsUpPoker

About

Poker Timer Pocket

Features
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◆ About the App Poker Timer Pocket is a minimalist yet powerful blind timer app, perfect for home poker games and small poker tournaments. It was designed with a focus on ease of use and aesthetic simplicity, allowing anyone to easily generate and display tournament structures. ◆ Key Features Auto Structure Generator Just enter your starting stack, number of players, and desired play time. The app instantly generates an optimal blind structure, no math required. Blind Timer Display See current level, time remaining, next blinds, and breaks at a glance. The large, easy-to-read interface makes the app fully usable from just your smartphone. Beautiful UI & Smooth UX No ads, no clutter, clean & focused design. Built to keep your attention on the game, not the screen. Full Manual Customization You can also edit, add, or remove levels and breaks manually. Ideal for home games, events, or custom poker setups. 7-Day Free Trial Try all premium features for free, no sign-up required. Not locked behind a subscription, you can experience everything before deciding. ◆ Recommended For Poker enthusiasts hosting home games at home, bars, or cafés Game organizers who want to simplify blind level and break management Users frustrated with complicated poker timer apps looking for a cleaner and smarter alternative Dealers and tournament directors running small-scale poker events Anyone who wants to make the most of their poker time with friends ◆ Why Poker Timer Pocket? When I tried to host a home poker tournament myself, I realized there were no timer apps that were both well-designed and pleasant to use. Most existing tools were overly complex or visually outdated. I wanted something more intuitive. An app that felt good to use. That desire led me to create Poker Timer Pocket, designed from a player’s perspective with real-world use in mind. Poker is about focus, flow, and enjoying the moment with others. So the structure manager should be smooth, minimal, and stress-free. Poker Timer Pocket was built to make that experience possible.

Screenshots

Blinds Up4 screens
Poker Timer Pocket4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Poker Timer Pocket at every 5 days against Blinds Up's monthly. Blinds Up's advantage is iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Blinds Up sells 30 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and Poker Timer Pocket sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Blinds Up ships an update monthly, Poker Timer Pocket every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Blinds Up versus Poker Timer Pocket: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBlinds UpPoker Timer Pocket
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.3 (126 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews51.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings126 — better—
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS13.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size103 MB151 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperJLBIZVIZORA

Bugs and requests

Blinds Up

Reported bugs

20 issues
  • Text input adds every letter and space multiple times
  • Background customization difficult and glitchy
  • App crashes when changing settings screens
  • App crashes when adding players
  • Login screen hangs and doesn't progress
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  • Password reset functionality broken
  • Premium features locked despite active subscription
  • Cannot connect to iTunes store error
  • Formula function fails when adding variables
  • Text boxes blackened and hard to see during setup
  • App closes every 3-5 minutes during use
  • Cannot edit tournament settings in free version
  • Settings click off immediately after single keystroke
  • Tournament won't end and clock continues running
  • Sounds and layouts not appearing or loading
  • Screen mirroring causes app crashes and data loss
  • Database migration on startup gets stuck at 0%
  • App won't display when connected to TV via HDMI
  • Sluggish and unresponsive after switching apps
  • Subscription renewal doesn't unlock premium features

Requested features

10 requests
  • Multi-device control and synchronization
  • Payment distribution calculator for tournament winners
  • Custom sound clip uploads
  • Improved formula editor for league calculations
  • Better in-app help documentation and tutorials
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  • Community forum for user support
  • Ability to control app from multiple devices simultaneously
  • One-time purchase option instead of subscription
  • Classic version of app with old features
  • Automatic chip distribution calculator

Poker Timer Pocket

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

30 purchases

Blinds Up

Subscriptions23
  • Blinds Up Premium$3.991 Month
  • Blinds Up Premium$5.997 Days
  • Blinds Up Premium$6.991 Month
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  • Blinds Up Premium$7.991 Month
  • Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium4 variants$9.991 Month
  • Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium$14.991 Month
  • Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial2 variants$19.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium$19.991 Month
  • Blinds Up Premium$23.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial$29.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium3 Months trial$29.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium$29.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium$39.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium1 Month trial$39.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium2 variants$49.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial$49.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium$69.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium3 variants$79.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium7 Days trial2 variants$99.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium2 variants$99.991 Year
  • Blinds Up Premium1 Month trial$149.991 Year
One-time7
  • SNG classic up to 10 players (6 hours max)Free
  • Layout Vegas$0.99
  • SNG turbo up to 10 players (4 hours max)$1.99
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  • SNG turbo up to 30 players (4 hours max)$1.99
  • SNG classic up to 30 players (6 hours max)$1.99
  • Blinds Up PRO$11.99
  • Blinds Up PRO$21.99
1 purchases

Poker Timer Pocket

One-time1
  • Continue Using the App$2.99

Questions

Is Blinds Up free?
Blinds Up is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Poker Timer Pocket free?
Poker Timer Pocket is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Blinds Up or Poker Timer Pocket have ads?
Neither Blinds Up nor Poker Timer Pocket shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Blinds Up or Poker Timer Pocket?
Blinds Up ships an update monthly, and Poker Timer Pocket every 5 days. Most recently, Blinds Up was updated on September 21, 2026 and Poker Timer Pocket on September 16, 2026.

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